I work at a university department that teaches film making. A new faculty member wants to buy a lot of old Bolex cameras to teach. She told me that there are very few Bolex repair tech still around. I was shocked at the cost of film stock in this video.
If you want to edit and use transitions, you'll need to get it transferred to digital. Unless you shoot negative, have a work print made, edit that and then cut the original, do color timing and transitions for the projection print. There's probably another step in the process for multiple prints for distribution.I guess if you get a film movie camera you need to get a film projector, or do you get it developed and scanned (sounds like heresy to me).
You wouldn’t do that in the analog domain? I enjoy watching old movies and they seem to have done that pretty well before digital.If you want to edit and use transitions, you'll need to get it transferred to digital.
The transfer to digital for editing and then transfer back to film for projection was in place for a considerable period of time before the theatres converted to digital projection.You wouldn’t do that in the analog domain? I enjoy watching old movies and they seem to have done that pretty well before digital.
Sure, it is just much more complex and expensive to do analog.You wouldn’t do that in the analog domain? I enjoy watching old movies and they seem to have done that pretty well before digital.
There are lots on eBay: Moviscop, Moviola, etc here in the US. Old amateur ones $50-100.Are basic 16mm film editors common in the States?
Been searching for one for awhile and haven't seen one. There are plenty of the 8mm types. I might have to make something.
Agreed, especially early digital is awful to watch and old film movies always look great.I sure hope it is. Digital movies look horrible. Over sharpened, faces w/ no detail, horrid colors, highlights blown out in half the frames. The thing w/ film is, it's expensive to shoot, and you really have to know what you're doing behind the camera. Meaning that movies made w/ film have top notch directors and cinematographers.
Editing film digitally retains the magic of film. Editing digital, digitally retains the crappy look of digital, LOL
Its fantastic younger people are enthusiastic about film, we should be full of encouragement and positivity.I work at a university department that teaches film making. A new faculty member wants to buy a lot of old Bolex cameras to teach. She told me that there are very few Bolex repair tech still around. I was shocked at the cost of film stock in this video.
Ok I might need to import a 16mm viewing editor, I have a couple of 8mm types.There are lots on eBay: Moviscop, Moviola, etc here in the US. Old amateur ones $50-100.
16mm on old Bolexes except as a history lesson- it’s never coming back as a capture medium in that world
Looking up the old standards, Tri-X reversal and processing at Yale Labs it comes to about $60 for 3 minutes of run time (50ft). I think 30 years ago I was paying about $30-40 for Kodachrome 40, so not that bad really. Motion picture film is expensive, always has been. People have been shooting their home movies on cheap video and digital so long they don’t remember how expensive film is. When I was shooting 16mm films as a student the costs were very high (and our films very short!). I am not sure how valuable the experience would be for students to shoot 16mm on old Bolexes except as a history lesson- it’s never coming back as a capture medium in that world. Once the Tarantino and Scorsese types stop shooting their features on it what’s left? The younger filmmakers have never shot any actual film and they are the future. RIP. (Yet I miss the process terribly)
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